“The time code is a grid or matrix and is used to define a film image,
or a piece of film
sound precisely, in terms of the passage of time. It encodes images and sounds. Every
24th of a
second on celluloid, every 25th of a second on television. We see our wallpaper,
which addresses
the time code most directly, as a gigantic pictorial archive: each figure conceals
an infinity of
possible images, which only editing equipment can make visible. Or it is about a
single long film
seen from behind. Empty, silent, motionless. The sensual world is replaced by its
digital image.
The time code stands, the numbers have a calming effect on us.“
(’RothStauffenberg, The Image Matrix; Towards a New Representation.’
Interview by Wolf Guenter Tiel for &sbquo;Flash Art’ n° 215, Nov-Dec
2000)